Whether you are a beginner or advanced, as a musician your iPhone and iPad can also lend you a hand. These are the best music apps for iOS.
Overview: 10 useful music apps for musicians
Quickly record a bass line, make up a beat or store your sheet music in a central place. More and more apps offer you a musical hand, so that you can get started with your music anytime and anywhere. We list the best apps for musicians for you.
1. Garage Band
Apple has also thought of the musical among us: iOS already has a number of standard apps that can come in handy. The most important of these is GarageBand. With this app you actually have a complete recording studio in miniature at your disposal. You can play all kinds of instruments digitally, produce songs and record music.
In addition, you have access to all kinds of free sounds and loops that you can use in productions, as you can add up to 32 tracks of sounds and instruments to a song. What’s extra nice is that the app syncs with all your Apple devices via iCloud, and you can continue on your Mac just as easily.
2. Music Memos
Do you suddenly have a good guitar riff or vocal line in your head? Then the default iOS app Music Memos is your best friend. The app provides an easy way to record musical ideas as the recording is always recorded as a sound track.
This way you can always process this later in a production program. The audio is recorded uncompressed in high quality, after which you can quickly share and import the recording. You can also label recordings so that you know what a verse, solo or chorus is.
3. forScore
The forScore app is an ideal solution, especially for musicians who work a lot with sheet music. The app gives you the option to replace your note-packed clapperboard with an iPad that shows your games in a smart way.
The nice thing is that you can completely personalize the way the notes appear and pages are displayed. You can also import your PDF files with music pieces in various ways, after which you can create and share set lists.
4. Music Match
Singing fanatics can find lyrics in the handy app Musixmatch. The app has a huge library of lyrics that are often translated into multiple languages. The app works in part the same as, for example, Shazam: you can look up a song that you hear, after which you immediately see the lyrics. You can also link the app to Apple Music or Spotify or simply search manually.
5. Medly
You can produce a nice beat on your iPad or iPhone with Medly. The app makes it very accessible and clear to put together a melody or beat. In the free version you have access to sixteen instruments, 100 loops and numerous effects and filters.
The controls are very simple: by dragging you can place sounds on the right track or place. You can then share your songs via Soundcloud or social media.
6. Guitar Tuna
You have plenty of tuners for your guitar, but the GuitarTuna app does the job just as well. With the help of the app you ensure that your guitar is always in tune.
GuitarTuna offers support for all kinds of guitars and more than hundreds of ways to tune your guitar. Thanks to the simple appearance, you can set this exactly and immediately see whether you are sitting correctly, or whether the strings still need to be tightened.
7. Chordify
Chordify is very useful for both beginners and advanced users. In the app you will find the chords of more than 4.5 million songs. Whether you want to learn a new song or look up a party; you just need to enter the song title to find it. It is also possible to search from YouTube or Soundcloud, if you don’t know the title for example.
Chordify shows the chords for all instruments, but there is also an animated display for guitar, piano and ukulele. In addition, with a paid subscription in the app, it is possible to slow down the music while practicing, set chords in a different pitch or use the app offline.
8. Suggestion
Want to make a new song but don’t know which chords go well together? Then use the Suggester app. Strike a chord and the app will tell you what a good successor would be after the chord. The app has numerous chord types and music scales.
When you have found your favorite chord progression, you can easily save it in your iCloud. That way you can quickly find it again. You can use the app for a piano, keyboard, guitar and other stringed instruments.
9. Ultimate Guitar
Almost every guitar player knows the Ultimate Guitar website. They also have a handy app for a while, which works better than the website. Here you will find 1.4 million different tabs and chord progressions. Type a song you want to learn on guitar in the search bar and start practicing.
For some songs, you can also watch a video that shows you how to play the song. The app is free, but with the premium version you can also let the tabs scroll with the song as you play.
10. Piano Chords and Scales
With Piano Chords and Scales you have all your chords and music scales at hand. Click on a chord, for example the C, and the app shows you which types of the C chord there are.
You can also find chord progressions here. For example, you can see how to go from a G chord to a C chord. With the built-in mini piano note you immediately hear how the chord sounds. You can also save your own composed songs in the app.
More useful music apps
If you’re looking for a song to hear, there are also plenty of apps that recognize music for you from your iPhone. The WhoSampled app, on the other hand, lets you track down who owns the original fragment being sampled in a song. It’s even possible to use your iPad as a guitar amp, so you’ll never run out of sound.